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Wired contributor Sean Captain writes in with details of the CES Innovations awards winners, announced just moments ago in New York.
Ahead of its annual Las Vegas electronics orgy this coming January, the Consumer Electronics Association today announced the 32 winners of its Innovations 2007 Design and Engineering Awards.
This year's winners, which follow in the footsteps of such icons as the cassette recorder, electronic calculator, and color TV, cover 29 product categories including audio, gaming, PCs, televisions, and wireless communications. Espousing the more-is-more philosophy, many of the winners squeeze multiple functions into one product. Here are some of the coolest.
The Mega Laptop - The computer hardware winner is a little bit laptop and a little bit desktop. Dell's XPS M2010 -- is a fold-up, luggable PC with a 20.1-inch widescreen LCD, eight built-in speakers for simulated surround-sound audio, and a full-size wireless keyboard.
More winners -- with pictures -- after the jump.
The Lampenspeaker - Speakers are big and clunky, kinda like lamps. Mitek Mobile reduces the clutter with the Soundolier DUO -- a combination table lamp and omnidirectional speaker system that took the home theater audio award.
Two Cameras In One - Kodak's EasyShare V610 Dual Lens camera finegles a 10X optical zoom into a camera measuring only 0.9 inches thick. The secret? It contains two lens-and-sensor mechanisms. One that zooms from a wide angle of 38 millimeters to a 114-millimeter telephoto. Then a second mechanism picks up, covering the 130â•„ to 380-millimeter range. IT won for innovations in digital imaging.
A Touchy Lamp - The eco-design winner is the HermanMiller Leaf -- a lamp that not only turns on and off but also adjusts the color of light based on touch. The folding Leaf contains 20 light-emitting diodes that use no more than a meager 9 watts of power. Ten of the LEDs have a cool blue cast; the other ten have a warm yellowish cast. Sliding a finger along a groove in the base changes the mix of cool and warm light, which the lamp remembers the next time it's powered up.
The Very Connected TV - Hewlett-Packard's HP SLC3760N merges the TV and computer worlds. Judged the most innovative video display, the 37-inch high-def LCD TV has wired and wireless connections to stream music, photos and videos from a nearby PC. It makes the link via the Windows Media Connect capability in the Windows XP, service pack 2, operating system.
